The same author of the previously reviewed "Wealth and Glory". It also has the same format of pretty short arcs, but it is more profound in comparison.
Despite the fact that both are tagged as "romance" on JJWXC, but it's blatantly a NoCP novel. And tbh it has the same almost open ending, where it just ends, with no opening up on who the main character is, though it was mentioned from time to time that she doesn't remember her past, she just started from the blank page. And because the arcs are short and the novel is long there's plenty of content. I can't say I was won by it, but I can't deny that I received some sort of entertainment by reading it. So it wasn't without good points, but not without faults as well.
The heroine is bound to system 9526, the system that finds itself totally useless when it comes to help and such, since most of the time the heroine relies on herself. She has no name, since she can't remember who she is, as it proved to be of no significance, since she got no name and no past was revealed. She got a name Xiao Han that was used as main in consequent arcs.
Since Xiao Han is an unknown entity but is blank as a piece of paper she starts learning all the things and is interested in everything that requires knowledge in every arc. So we get this knowledgable and smart person, who cares mostly about enriching herself and getting the task done btw (there are no task arcs too). Because the first arc is set in ancient times it was the base for her further cultivation too, since it involved getting into martial arts from the get go. Which she used in the following arcs, constantly enriching and changing as she saw fit, but basically in some arcs it saved her health and she could protect herself.
From the point of storytelling, since we don't need to find out about her it's all about stories in those arcs, from ancient to modern. Don't look for some concrete point that author might have wanted to make, I see at as just freefloating to whichever part they want, which included, but not limited to stories about wealthy families, mixed relatives, helping unworthy people, becoming a moving force by becoming an emperor etc.. But this is also a good point, since you may not know what might happen here or there, for example, in the arc where she is asked by original host to pay back to her father we have a secret chat room she joins, which basically has nothing to do with her task or identity, it's just there. The only thing that I want to point out is that sometimes there was some stubborness in her actions against other people, I can understand not wanting to have anything with the task person, but there are plenty of side-characters who I think were a victim to her actions. For example, in the arc where she became a doctor I couldn't see why the family was too stubborn to wait for her, while there was time to see another specialist and also I couldn't understand her, since she basically let the old man die unattended, while she refused to operate on him only because of his family feud with her. Also because of her own principle of taking only most complicated and impossible cases. Tbh I felt that it was an unnecessary unyealdiness and no compromise. She could basically make those who despised her poverty in the beginning owe her in the end. But it felt tacky too. There were several cases like this stubborness throughout the novel, but of course Xiao Han was never bothered or sunk under morality of choice. In this case she was quite flexible, where she saw it fit she did things according to law, in other cases she did it as she saw fit. But sometimes I truly enjoyed how author managed to rule the story out. Anyway yeah.
In novels like these sometimes you, unfortunately, come across such a trend that love/relationship and family are seen as something unnecessary and not really a desirable thing, sometimes it may even coem across with some underlying critic as I see it. I may be wrong, but sometimes it really came across like that. But who knows, due to length of these novels and actually although there was so much happening, but it added to the lack of depth. Also by now when I finished and started a new book I can hardly remember what was written. And when I see such things happen I classify it as - well, I was entertainmed yes, but it still did not manage to impress me deeply. At least it was better than the previous one.
RATE: 3,5/5.
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